General Program Benefits: Program benefits for undergraduate coursework are immediate upon regular full-time employment. The employee must begin full-time
employment prior to the beginning date of the term in which the employee/spouse/dependent
is enrolling.

Program benefits for graduate coursework require one year uninterrupted employment prior to the beginning date of the term
in which the employee or spouse is enrolling.

The Employee Grant Program is managed in accordance with federal, state and institutional
financial aid policies and procedures.

Program Guidelines:

1. Eligibility

a. Employees. Regular full-time employees, full-time faculty and nonfaculty personnel
on contracts of at least 10 months annually are eligible, providing all other criteria
is met. Temporary employees, visiting professors or lecturers are not eligible.

b. Spouse. A legal husband or wife of the eligible employee.

c. Dependents. A dependent for purposes of eligibility for an Employee Grant is a
person who meets dependency status per federal financial aid guidelines. A child
may be claimed on the employee tax return but not considered a dependent according
to federal regulations.

The federal financial aid guidelines for a dependent student are:

Under the age of 24

Working on an undergraduate degree

Single with no dependents

Not attained veteran status

Not be considered a ward of the court

2. Admissions

All employees, spouses and dependents utilizing the Employee Grant Program must apply
for undergraduate or graduate admission to the University and be accepted for admission
based on current admission standards. All applicants must pay the application fee. This is an online application process, and the application fee cannot be waived unless
it is in an already established time period where the application fee is being waived
for all applicants, not just employees/spouses/children.

3. Maximum Institutional Award

Each employee has a maximum amount of institutional aid that may be used annually
for the employee and his/her spouse or dependents. The combined total of Employee
Grant funds that may be used by the employee and his/her spouse or dependents during
a financial aid year (fall semester through summer semester) cannot exceed the equivalent
of the current year annual full-time undergraduate tuition rate for one person for
the fall and spring semesters.

Within the annual full-time tuition rate equivalency noted above, no more than 12 credit hours per year may be used for graduate coursework. This 12 credit hour maximum is for a single student or a combination of several family
members enrolled in graduate classes.

Any unused portion of the annual Maximum Institutional Award in any year cannot be
applied to an earlier fiscal year nor carried forward for use in a later fiscal year.

4. Attendance Criteria

a. Employees. Employees may take undergraduate or graduate classes outside their normal working
hours during any term with permission from their direct supervisor and senior officer.
Permission is to be obtained by authorized signatures on the Employee Grant Form that
must be submitted prior to the beginning of each term. The Employee Grant Form may be downloaded from the university website at Charlestonsouthern.edu. The document is located under the Faculty and Staff section. The student’s course schedule must be attached to the Employee Grant Form prior to
submission to the Financial Aid Office.

b. Spouse. The legal spouse of an employee, as defined under Eligibility, may attend either part-time
or full-time as an undergraduate or graduate student during any term with permission
from the direct supervisor and senior officer. Permission is to be obtained by authorized
signatures on the Employee Grant Form that must be submitted prior to the beginning of each term. The Employee Grant Form may be downloaded from the university website at Charlestonsouthern.edu. The document is located under the Faculty and Staff section. The student’s course schedule must be attached to the Employee Grant Form prior to
submission to the Financial Aid Office.

c. Dependents. A dependent of an employee, as defined under Eligibility, may attend either part-time
or full-time as an undergraduate student during any term with permission from the
direct supervisor and senior officer. Permission is to be obtained by authorized signatures
on the Employee Grant Form that must be submitted prior to the beginning of each term. The Employee Grant Form may be downloaded from the university website at Charlestonsouthern.edu. The document is located under the Faculty and Staff section. The student’s course schedule must be attached to the Employee Grant Form prior to
submission to the Financial Aid Office.

a. Book Allowance. Employees/Spouses/Dependents who are eligible to receive funds
from the Employee Grant Program and qualify by the state of South Carolina to receive
the S.C. Hope Scholarship, will be allowed to use $150 per year of their scholarship
for books.

Employees/Spouses/Dependents who are eligible to receive funds from the Employee Grant
Program and qualify by the state of South Carolina to receive the S.C. Life Scholarship
or S. C. Palmetto Fellows Scholarship, will be allowed to use $300 per year of their
scholarship for books. The amount of funds each year will be based on the amount of
funds allocated by the S.C. Legislature for this purpose. This will be awarded above
the full-time tuition benefit of the Employee Grant Program.

b. Housing Allowance.

Dependents will not be allowed to use their S.C. Hope Scholarship, S.C. Life Scholarship
or the S. C. Palmetto Fellow Scholarship as a part of their Housing Allowance.

Temporary Exception: Dependents who have used the 50 percent housing allowance in
semesters prior to June 1, 2012, will be allowed to continue to use it through spring
semester 2013 only.

6. Other Program Provisions

The employee receiving an employee grant for himself, spouse or his dependent(s) does
so under the following provisions:

a. Beginning fall semester 2013, the Employee Grant Program benefit will not support tuition waiver for enrollment as a nondegree seeking student at Charleston Southern University. A few examples of a nondegree seeking student
would be a current high school student who dual-enrolls at CSU or a student of record
at another institution who takes classes during the summer at CSU to transfer back
to their home institution. If you have questions concerning this provision, please
consult the university catalog under Types of Acceptance for a definition of nondegree
seeking. This provision applies to undergraduate and graduate students. Employees
(not dependents or spouses) who would like to audit a class as a nondegree seeking
student, may be allowed to do so on a space available basis.

b. All students, undergraduate and graduate, full-time or part-time must maintain
a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 or greater in order to be considered to receive the tuition waiver benefit for a subsequent
term. In the case of programs offering classes in a subterm format, this would apply
to subterms. This also applies to students who transfer to CSU from another institution.
The GPA at their prior institution must be 2.5 or higher, or they will not be eligible
to receive the tuition waiver benefit.

Temporary Exception: (Students receiving the tuition waiver benefit who were enrolled
during spring semester or summer semester 2012 and are continuing for fall 2012 and
do not currently meet the minimum 2.5 GPA requirement will be allowed to receive the
tuition waiver benefit during the fall 2012 semester only. The minimum 2.5 GPA requirement
will be required for these students for any semesters after fall 2012).

7. Federal/Institutional Work-Study

Students receiving the employee tuition waiver benefit will not be eligible to receive
federal or institutional work-study funds.

8. FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) Requirement

a. Undergraduate

All recipients of the Employee Grant Program who enroll in an undergraduate program
must submit a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) each year prior to
July 1 for the fall semester, prior to November 1 for the spring semester or prior
to April 1 for the summer semester. The summer semester includes maymester, extended
maymester and all summer subterms. To be considered for Direct Federal Stafford Loans,
the family member must request loans on the Employee Grant Form when it is submitted
to the financial aid office.

Should the employee begin full-time employment after July 1 but prior to the beginning
date of the fall semester, he/she must still submit the FAFSA for that term if the
recipient will be enrolled in an undergraduate program. THE FAFSA may be completed
online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.

Requests for exceptions to filing the FAFSA must be submitted in writing to the Vice
President for Enrollment Management.

b. Graduate

All recipients of the Employee Grant Program who attend full-time or part-time in
a graduate program, will only need to complete the FAFSA if they are interested in applying for student
loans. To be considered for Direct Federal Stafford Loans, the employee or family
member must request loans on the Employee Grant Form when this form is submitted to
the financial aid office.

9. If the employee/spouse/dependent is attending in part-time status and withdraws
from a course or courses after drop/add with W, WP or WF or receives a grade of NA
or FA, the employee will be responsible for payment of all tuition charges for this
course(s). Financial aid will be reduced for the courses not completed.

10. If the employee/spouse/dependent is attending in full-time status and completely
withdraws from a course or courses after drop/add, but remains in full-time status,
the employee/spouse/dependent must meet financial aid satisfactory progress as defined
in the University Catalog to remain eligible for the benefit in subsequent semesters.

11. If the employee/spouse/dependent is attending in full-time status and takes any
action that reduces them to part-time status after drop/add, the employee will be
responsible for payment of balance on student account due to difference between full
tuition charges and part-time financial aid.The student may appeal these charges to the Financial Appeals Committee at http://www.csuniv.edu/studentaccounts/appeals.asp.

12. If full-time employment ceases for any reason during a semester, the tuition waiver
will be prorated for the semester in which it was awarded and the employee ceased
employment.The employee will be responsible for the balance generated on the student account
when the tuition waiver is removed.

13. Graduate Program

a. Program benefits for graduate coursework require one year uninterrupted employment
prior to the beginning date of the term, or subterm for programs offering courses
in a subterm format, in which the employee or spouse is enrolling. The employee is
responsible for providing the employment (hire) date on the Employee Grant Form.

b. Employees and spouses will be eligible to receive the tuition waiver benefit for
a combined maximum of 12 graduate credit hours per financial aid year (Fall semester through Summer semester) The university recommends that students
not take more than 6 credit hours per term. (Temporary Exception: Employees who used
the tuition waiver benefit for graduate courses during the spring 2012 semester, will
be allowed to continue using this benefit above the 12 credit hour per year limit
until they graduate or stop out for a semester.)

c. Maximum Funding Allowance (Graduate)

Within the annual full-time tuition rate equivalency noted in item 3. Maximum Institutional
Award, no more than 12 credit hours per year may be used for graduate coursework. This 12 credit hour maximum is for a single student or a combination of several
family members enrolled in graduate classes.

d. All students receiving a graduate tuition waiver under the Employee Grant Program
are responsible for paying taxes on the fringe benefit amount. As such, the payroll
office will add the value of such grants to your pay record for income tax withholding
purposes. The fringe benefit amount will be split between the paychecks that occur
in the respective semester and the amount will be included in your W-2 at the end
of the year. This will decrease your net pay for these pay periods, since your taxes
on this fringe benefit will be withheld, with no corresponding increase in your gross
salary amount.

14. Important Deadlines

a. Fall semester deadline is July 1 each year. Employee Grant Forms and FAFSA (for appropriate financial aid year) must be received
in the Enrollment Services office/Hunter Reception Center prior to the beginning of
the fall semester. The Employee Grant Form will not be considered complete if it does
not have all required signatures and have the student course schedule attached. The
student must be registered for classes, and the tuition waiver will be based on the
actual credit hours registered at the time the Employee Grant Form is submitted. Any
changes to the credit hours will require submission of a REVISED Employee Grant Form.
Failure to do this could create a balance owed on the student account which will be
the responsibility of the employee.

b. Spring semester deadline is November 1 each year. Employee Grant Forms and FAFSA (for appropriate financial aid year) must be received
in the Enrollment Services office/Hunter Reception Center prior to the beginning of
the spring semester. The Employee Grant Form will not be considered complete if it
does not have all required signatures and have the student course schedule attached.
The student must be registered for classes, and the tuition waiver will be based on
the actual credit hours registered at the time the Employee Grant Form is submitted.
Any changes to the credit hours will require submission of a REVISED Employee Grant
Form. Failure to do this could create a balance owed on the student account which
will be the responsibility of the employee.

c. Summer semester (includes maymester, extended maymester and all summer su-terms)
deadline is April 1 each year. Employee Grant Forms and FAFSA (for appropriate financial aid year) must be received
in the Enrollment Services office/Hunter Reception Center prior to the beginning of
the summer semester. The Employee Grant Form will not be considered complete if it
does not have all required signatures and have the student course schedule attached.
The student must be registered for classes, and the tuition waiver will be based on
the actual credit hours registered at the time the Employee Grant Form is submitted.
Any changes to the credit hours will require submission of a REVISED Employee Grant Form. Failure to do this could create a balance owed on the student
account which will be the responsibility of the employee.

Charleston Southern University reserves the right to make revisions to these guidelines
at anytime. The Employee Grant Program is not an entitlement and is not guaranteed
as an employee benefit.